School Council

The School Council is an important part of Trotts Hill and the children feel proud to be elected. In July, the class vote for their representatives for the next academic year. All children from Year 2 to Year 6 are given the opportunity to stand for election. After making a speech to their class, their peers vote. This is an important part of children’s experience of British Values and a democratic process in school. Children attend a weekly meeting, alongside Miss Williams.

Our School Council is a member of Stevenage Schools Parliament and the Year 6 School Councillors attend regular meetings.

This year our School Council will focus on:

Showing visitors around the school.

Our local area and recycling

2017/2018 School Council Representatives:

Year 2 – Neve M & Joe K

Year 3 – Poppy C & Kailan R-B

Year 4 – Nina F & Leo G

Year 5 – Jack N & Ruby L

Year 6 – Jenson B & Izzy W

12th March 2018 – eSafety

We discussed different ways you can ensure you stay safe online. Here were some of our ideas

Tell a trusted adult if you are unsure about something (a teacher, parent or grandparent)

Think before you post anything!

If you’re at school you can press Hector, minimise the screen or turn the iPad over.

Always ask for permission before downloading or playing new games

Never talk to strangers only

Keep your passwords safe

Use a secure username that doesn’t reveal your identity.

Keep personal information private

5th March 2018 – Recycling

Today we began to prepare for Waste Week (19.3.2018). We created a list of questions we would like to ask Mrs Donovan and Mr Driver about recyling:

We will create our own recycling posters to share with our classes next week.

8th February 2018 – Love in a Box – Make a difference today

We received lots of generous donations today for Stevenage Food bank. Thank you so much. Well done to the School Council for helping to organise this event and helping to lead the assembly.

29th January 2018 – Love in a Box

The School Council have created posters to encourage children and parents/carers to bring in donations for our Love in a Box Collection.
They will each be sharing the posters with their class and displaying them in the class windows.
Here is a selection of the posters:

22nd January 2018 – Visit to the Mayor’s office

Our Year 6 school councillors visited the Mayor’s office today. They discussed Love in a Box, eco week, Houses of Parliament and visiting the recycling centre

Our next meeting will be in May.

15th January 2018 – Meeting

Today Jenson and Izzy took us on a tour of the school! They introduced us to each teacher and told us some information about the learning in every class.

Library

Reception area

Year 3

8th January 2018 – Meeting

We met today to discuss which movies we would like to be shown for the FROTH film afternoons at the end of the month.
The winners of our vote will be told in assembly next week!

20th November 2017 – Meeting

Today we discussed the impact of anti-bullying week and our shared play time:

We also discussed prizes that we would like to have for winning attendance, lunch cups and for being the House team winners.
Some of our ideas were:

non-uniform for the winning class / House

extra play time

extra Golden time

snacks

Movie afternoon and bring own snacks in from home.

Miss Williams is going to share these ideas with Mrs Dent and Miss Pidgeon.

Next week Jenson and Izzy are taking the whole of School Council on a tour of the school!

16th November 2017 – Visit from Tesco

We would like to thank Tesco for their support with the fundraising that occurred in the summer term to raise money for EYFS outdoor equipment. We managed to raise £600. Tesco also kindly donated board-games for each classroom. We are extremely grateful to parents for their support too. In total we have raised £800. Thank you to everybody.

Megh and Alanna receiving our donation

The board games which were kindly donated

6th November 2017 – meeting

Over the half term we all had a look at the School website.
Things we like:

Each class has examples of work and photos of the work

Names of Celebration Assembly award winners are on the website

The value of the month and quote on the homepage

Things we could look to change or improve in the future:

Update the photos (Miss Williams and Miss Pidgeon are going to look at this Autumn Term 2)

Look into having photos of the staff on the website

Information about After School Club to be clear.

In future meetings we are going to discuss recycling, Love in a Box and have a tour of the school (lead by Jenson and Izzy).

18th October 2017 – meeting

This week we have looked at the Trotts Hill school website. Over the half term, school councillors will be looking at the website in more detail. Likes and improvements will be discussed next half term.
We also made a mind map of our ideas about school lunches. Miss Williams is also going to contact Herts Catering with our ideas.

9th October 2017 – meeting

Today we thought of some ideas for team names for our future House Point system!
We came up with some really fun ideas, including:

Dr Seuss

Thomas Edison

Ussain Bolt

Andy Warhol

Leonardo Da Vinci

Trotts Hill staff will be voting on the final names.

2nd October 2017 – meeting

This week we discussed what we like about play times and lunch times and thought of some ideas of how we can make these times of day better. We passed our ideas onto Mrs Dent who is going to feedback to the MSAs with our suggestions.